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Restore · 03 · Dock Repair & Re-Decking
A tired deck is not always a dead dock
If the bones are good, you do not need a new dock. We strip the tired boards, fix what the years got to, and lay a fresh deck on your existing frame. It is the difference between a repair bill and a rebuild bill.
Spongy underfoot is a symptom, not a verdict
It usually starts small. A board that flexes when you carry the cooler out. A screw backing out where the sun hits hardest. One patch near the waterline you have quietly started stepping around, and a guest you warn about it before they walk down.
Here is the part most owners never get told: the decking is the sacrificial layer. Sun, salt and the wet-dry cycle are supposed to take the boards first, because boards are the piece designed to be replaced. A deck that looks finished says surprisingly little about the dock holding it up.
So the useful question is never how bad the boards look. It is what is under them. The owner walks the dock with you, free, sounds the deck and reads the frame, and tells you which of the honest answers you are actually looking at.
Every job covers
Full tear-off of the old deck
Boards and spent fasteners come up and go on the truck. With the deck off, the frame is finally visible, which is the only honest way to know what you are dealing with.
Frame and stringer repairs
Soft stringers get replaced, sound ones get re-fastened, and anything the years got to is fixed while it is open. This is the part that decides how the new deck feels underfoot.
New composite or pressure-treated decking
Composite for zero staining and color that survives full sun, or marine-grade pressure-treated pine as the budget workhorse. We quote both when it is a close call.
Salt-rated hardware throughout
Fasteners and connectors specified for salt water go back in place of whatever corroded out. Hidden-fastener patterns are available where you want a clean deck face.
Picture-frame borders and clean edges
A framed border around the perimeter hides the board ends and makes an old dock read as new. Corners, trim and lift cutouts get finished the same way.
Old material hauled off
Every board, screw and offcut leaves with us, by barge where the water is the easy route. You get the dock back clean and ready to walk on.
From soft spot to solid deck
Sound the deck
The owner meets you at the water, free. He walks the deck, sounds the boards, checks the stringers underneath and looks hard at the pilings where the water meets the wood.
Make the call
Repair, re-deck or rebuild. You get the recommendation and the reason behind it, and if a fresh deck would just be lipstick on a failing frame, we say so instead of selling it.
Strip and repair
Old decking and fasteners come off and the frame gets a proper look in daylight. Stringer and frame repairs happen while everything is open, not after the boards are back down.
Lay the new deck
Fresh boards go down, borders and edges get finished, and the old material leaves with us. You walk it with the owner before the barge pulls off.
Real work, real water
Every photo is our own work on SW Florida water. Click any of them to look closer.
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Three answers, and the frame picks one
Owners call about the boards, because the boards are the part you touch. Fair enough. But the deck is a surface, and surfaces are meant to wear out. What decides your job is the structure nobody looks at: the stringers under the boards, the frame they sit in, and the pilings carrying all of it.
The frame decides. Sound stringers on sound pilings mean the deck is just a layer you get to replace, and that is a good day. A frame that moves when you walk it, or pilings leaning and necking down at the waterline, mean new boards would hide the problem instead of fixing it. The free inspection exists to put your dock in one of the columns below, with the reason attached where you can see it.
| Repair | A few soft boards, a loose section, one tired stringer, and the rest of the deck still solid underfoot. We swap out what is bad and leave the good work alone. The smallest fix that actually fixes it. |
|---|---|
| Re-deck | The boards are done across the whole dock, but the stringers, frame and pilings still check out. Full tear-off, frame repairs where needed, fresh deck on the bones you already paid for. |
| Rebuild | The pilings lean, neck down at the waterline, or the frame shifts underfoot no matter what board goes on top. New decking there is lipstick. The honest answer starts below the water. |
Dock Repair & Re-Decking questions
Often paired with this
Piling Installation
The frame stands on pilings. If yours are leaning or necking at the waterline, that is where the real fix has to start.
See the service Related servicePiling Wraps
The deck coming off is the easy moment to seal sound pilings at the waterline, before the new boards go back down.
See the service Related serviceFree Dock Inspections
Not sure whether you are looking at a repair, a re-deck or a rebuild? The free inspection settles it with a straight report.
See the serviceFind out what your deck actually needs
Tell us your canal and what you are feeling underfoot. The owner will come sound the deck, free, and tell you straight whether it is a repair, a re-deck or a rebuild.
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